Sims

The class was really fired up about J. Sims during our discussion. As a women I can total understand the hot button issue. While I agree that what Sims did to his experimental subjects was Extremly horrible and totally unethical, I do not agree with judging him again the ethical standards of today.We cannot judge the past through the same glasses as we view today with.Yes Sims mameded,druged and took advantage of slaves to fulfill his own sexual fantasies and to show that he had power over women(especial deviant bodies). But without men like him or doctors in general like him the state do our medical pratitice might not be where they are now.With ever law or ethical standard people first have to find the normal. Sims was respected in the beginning of his practice,only until other doctors began seeing the experiments beginning done they did take a small stand(they didn't stop him they just stopped helping him).Maybe it my sinical view of the world but, I think that for change to happen we need to see the worst possible before real powerful change can happen. -Sarah Fiorella